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    Cardinal: one
    Ordinal: first
    Abbreviated ordinal: 1st
    Latinate ordinal: primary
    Reverse order ordinal: last
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate
    Adverbial: one time, once
    Multiplier: onefold
    Latinate multiplier: single
    Distributive: singly
    Germanic collective: onesome
    Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton
    Greek or Latinate collective: monad
    Greek collective prefix: mono-
    Latinate collective prefix: uni-
    Fractional: whole
    Elemental: singlet, singleton
    Greek prefix: proto-
    Number of musicians: solo
    Number of years: year

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/, /ˈʌltɪmət/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Adjective

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ultimate (comparative more ultimate, superlative most ultimate)

  1. (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
    • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England[1], page 15:
      [] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; []
  2. (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
    the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
    • 1813, Henry Ware, Noah Worcester, The Christian Disciple and Theological Review[2], Boston, Cummings and Hilliard, pages 227-228:
      Not that we consider this as the most desirable channel in which these affections should be made to flow. The good that is done in this way, is by no means in proportion to the good that is intended. Injudicious charity has probably been productive of far more ultimate evil, than the coldest and most indiscriminating selfishness.
    • 1839, Thomas Bartlett, Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of Joseph Butler[3], John W. Parker, page 264:
      "But if Berkeley be clear in conveying his doctrine, the matter of the exposition will be found not the less to press upon the powers of the firmest intellect. There are diligent students of modern metaphysical literature, who are little disciplined for the difficulties of disquisition into which a thorough examination of his views would lead them. His characteristic system depends little on mere classification, little on the more obvious results of observation. It rests on a basis of intense self-contemplation, which, to be prosecuted to any purpose, must be prosecuted with extreme perseverance. It questions the conscious being on points the most ultimate in his nature, — points which, though they be but facts of consciousness, we hesitate not to say, there are many minds wholly unable to make the objects of reflection."
    • 1843, Artizan Club (London, England), The Artizan[4], Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, page 106:
      "From the foregoing observations we deduce the interesting fact that acetic acid, hitherto known only as a product of the oxidation of organic materials, can be built up by almost direct synthesis from its elements. Sulphide of carbon, chloride of carbon, and chlorine, are the agents which, along with water, accomplish the transformation of carbon into acetic acid. If we could only transform acetic acid into alcohol, and out of the latier could obtain sugar and starch, then we should be enabled to build up these common vegetable principles, by the so-called artificial method, from their most ultimate elements."
    • 1867, The North American Review[5], O. Everett, page 634:
      Dr. Bucknill declares that the growth and renovation of nerve-cells in the brain "are the most ultimate conditions of mind with which we are accquainted"; but instead of inferring from this that we know very little indeed about the mind, he concludes that thought, recollection, and reason are products of "the activity of the vesicular neurine of the brain."
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
      Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  5. (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
  6. (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
    • 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: [], London: [] Thomas Davison, [] for Taylor and Hessey, [], →OCLC:
      those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
  7. (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
    an ultimate constituent of matter

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Noun

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ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)

  1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
  4. (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc.

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Verb

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ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
    • 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine, volume 41, page 36:
      These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.

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Etymology

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From English ultimate.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈultimɑte/, [ˈul̪t̪iˌmɑ̝t̪e̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑte
  • Syllabification(key): ul‧ti‧ma‧te
  • Hyphenation(key): ul‧ti‧ma‧te

Noun

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ultimate

  1. ultimate frisbee (game)

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Inflection of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative ultimate ultimatet
genitive ultimaten ultimatejen
partitive ultimatea ultimateja
illative ultimateen ultimateihin
singular plural
nominative ultimate ultimatet
accusative nom. ultimate ultimatet
gen. ultimaten
genitive ultimaten ultimatejen
ultimatein rare
partitive ultimatea ultimateja
inessive ultimatessa ultimateissa
elative ultimatesta ultimateista
illative ultimateen ultimateihin
adessive ultimatella ultimateilla
ablative ultimatelta ultimateilta
allative ultimatelle ultimateille
essive ultimatena ultimateina
translative ultimateksi ultimateiksi
abessive ultimatetta ultimateitta
instructive ultimatein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ultimateni ultimateni
accusative nom. ultimateni ultimateni
gen. ultimateni
genitive ultimateni ultimatejeni
ultimateini rare
partitive ultimateani ultimatejani
inessive ultimatessani ultimateissani
elative ultimatestani ultimateistani
illative ultimateeni ultimateihini
adessive ultimatellani ultimateillani
ablative ultimateltani ultimateiltani
allative ultimatelleni ultimateilleni
essive ultimatenani ultimateinani
translative ultimatekseni ultimateikseni
abessive ultimatettani ultimateittani
instructive
comitative ultimateineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ultimatesi ultimatesi
accusative nom. ultimatesi ultimatesi
gen. ultimatesi
genitive ultimatesi ultimatejesi
ultimateisi rare
partitive ultimateasi ultimatejasi
inessive ultimatessasi ultimateissasi
elative ultimatestasi ultimateistasi
illative ultimateesi ultimateihisi
adessive ultimatellasi ultimateillasi
ablative ultimateltasi ultimateiltasi
allative ultimatellesi ultimateillesi
essive ultimatenasi ultimateinasi
translative ultimateksesi ultimateiksesi
abessive ultimatettasi ultimateittasi
instructive
comitative ultimateinesi

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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ultimate

  1. inflection of ultimare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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ultimate f pl

  1. feminine plural of ultimato

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ultimāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō

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Verb

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ultimate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ultimar combined with te